"Shame on all of you, especially those who have turned their backs on your own cultural values for 30 pieces of silver, pretending to be converted to foreign, frigid and feelingless 'freedoms'," wrote Mpofu in his weekend letter, made public by SABC.

"Shame on all of you, especially those who have turned their backs on your own cultural values for 30 pieces of silver, pretending to be converted to foreign, frigid and feelingless 'freedoms'," wrote Mpofu in a weekend letter made public by SABC.

In the face of protectionism, the skewed approaches to peace, security and war, the demand for feelingless restructuring programmes, the mind-bending abuse of international laws and multilateral institutions the people of the south cannot afford the luxury of complacency and compliance.